Nevada County picayune., 1887-06-15
POISON IN THE ASHES
What the Mt. Lebanon Shakers FOund-Incident in the His
 tory of a Quiet Community.

munity, secluded from the fret and worry of the outside world. They are widely known, how ever, for their strict honor and probity in b,&;n ga.
 The SlI. icrs Dl .ieve that na- ture has arrme(,y for every dis ease. A few have been found the rest are as yet unknown. Many were discovered by acci- dent. Others came to light as the result of patient experiment and research.
 Nervous Dyspepsia IS com paratively ue~ disease, growing put of the conditions of modern life. 1t Is a joint affection of the digestive organs and of the nervous system. These two were formerly treated as sepa- rate ailments, and 1t was left for the clrar-sighted Shakers to prove that the bass of this terrible and often fatal compll- cation lies chiefly in the disord- cred and depraved functions of digestion and nutrition. They reasoned thus;-"If we can in- duce the stomach to do it's work, and stimulate the excre- tive organs to drive out of the body the poisonous waste mat ters which remain after the life giving elements of the food have been absorbed, we shall have conquered Nervous Dys- pepsia and Nervous Exhaust ion. And they werc right. Knowing the infallioie power of Shaker Extract (Seigel's Syrup) in less complicated though sim lar diseases, they resolved to test it fully in this. To leave no ground for doubt titv prescribed the remedy in hundreds of cases which had b,rn pronounced in- curable-with perfect success in every in, a.ee " .!ere their directions as to ..,.:. :, ;;nd diet were scrupu.ous.y followed. Nervous Dyspy''>.a and Ex- haustion is peculiarly Ameri- can disease. To q @,eater or less extent half the people of this coun " S' cr rom It. both sexes &!iu a4I -tA. In no country ill t,.t Yo...- are there so many in,....- '..llns filled to overhow.u-, al resulting from this alarming disease. Its leading synlp'oins are these: Frequent or cont....lal head ache; q dull pain at the base of the brain; bad breath; nau- seous err, A!,,oHs; t..e rising of SOFT end pun- .t fluids to the throat; a sen>r I oppress- ion and fain.ness tt the pit of the stomach; fat,' nee; wake iulness and loss (. sleep; dis gust with food even when weak from the nce;l of it; sticky or slimy matter on ,hr teeth or in the mou;h, G sec.a!ly OH ris- ing in the moYAl"; lurred and coated tonc':t; Gu.l eyes; cold hands anG feet; constipation; dry or ror.h sI,n; inability to fix the mi"d oa aly labor call ng for e" attention; and opprcs>ge aud sad fore bodingS an3 GcarS.
 All l.. ;yr.Dle group Shaker Ext (Scigel's Syrup r"r hv its pos tive, pow'''I, direct yet painless an'' '.tl' ction upon the functions ul %estion and assimilation. ! Io~c elements of the food tat l .lld up and strengthen tn" >, <icm are sent upon their mission, while all waste matters Uhc aSh"-of llfe's fire) which unrrmcyrd, poison and kill, are expelled from the body through the bowels, kid neys and skin. The weak and prostrated nerves are Inieted, toned and fed by the purified blood. As the result, health, with it's enioyments, blessings and power, returns to the suf- ferer who had, perhapa, aband- oned all hope of ever seeing another well day.